Matthew G. Carter

Matthew G. Carter (16 October 1913-14 March 2012) was Mayor of Montclair, New Jersey (R) from 1968 to 1972, succeeding Harold Hayes and preceding Mary V. Mochary.

Biography
Matthew G. Carter was born in Danville, Virginia in 1913, and he became a pastor in Petersburg before attending the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In 1964, he was elected to the Montclair, New Jersey town council, and he served as Vice Mayor and Commissioner of Public Works from 1964 to 1968. From 1968 to 1972, he served as Mayor of Montclair as a member of the Republican Party, but he lost a 1971 race for State Senator. Carter supported the expansion of affordable housing in the city, opened new low-income housing complexes, and passed a law prohibiting housing discrimination. He died of Alzheimer's disease in 2012 at the age of 98.